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toco

Portuguese, noun

toco is spelled T-O-C-O (4 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “stub, stump (something cut short, blunted, or stunted)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tocar. With an accent, tôco is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “resto de uma árvore cortada, composto da raiz e de um pequena parte do caule”.

What does toco mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestub, stump (something cut short, blunted, or stunted)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of tocar

prefix

as toco-
  1. 1

    toco- (relating to childbirth)

noun

as tôco
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of toco

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. resto de uma árvore cortada, composto da raiz e de um pequena parte do caule 2. certa planta medicinal 3. cacete, porrete 4. bloqueio brusco ao movimento da bola que foi ou está sendo arremessada a cesta por um adversário

prefix: 1. algo ou aquele que gera 2. nascimento 3. maíeusis

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of toco

  • tocos plural
  • metaphonic plural
  • tôco alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to toco

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is toco in Portuguese?

toco appears 4.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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